1,087 search results for “papua language and linguistics” in the Student website
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Meike de Boer: ‘The word 'uh' can help track down suspects’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. PhD candidate Meike de Boer knows everything about the word ‘uh’.
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Language Professionals on the Move: the Language Sector and Migrant Agency in Early Modern Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Luisella CaonFaculty of Humanities
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Ton van HaaftenFaculty of Humanities
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Tom KouwenhovenFaculty of Science
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Kiana ShahrasbiFaculty of Science
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Yee Man NgFaculty of Science
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Jingtian ShiFaculty of Humanities
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Ziheng ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like?
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archives. 'It can be a boost to your identity to know the history of your language.'
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize
University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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Alina KarakantaFaculty of Humanities
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Where does this Inca language come from? Verb conjugations should provide some answers
When university lecturer Martine Bruil was on exchange in Ecuador as a teenager, she fell in love with the area's ancient languages. Now, more than 20 years later, she is starting a research project on the kinship of the language Awapit with the Quechua language that was spread by the Incas.
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Sjef Barbiers moves to INT: ‘Especially in times of AI, we need to keep Dutch relevant’
Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) from 1 September.
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Hossam AhmedFaculty of Humanities
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Stephan RaaijmakersFaculty of Humanities
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Oriol Febrer i Vilaseca
Faculty of Humanities
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Emmanuel WalesonFaculty of Humanities
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Rhomayda Aimah
Faculty of Humanities
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Fernanda Korovsky MouraFaculty of Humanities
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Ton HarmsenFaculty of Humanities
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Wim TiggesStudent and Educational Support
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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Old signs & current signs in LSF (French Sign Language)
Lecture, Sign Language & Deaf People
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PhD candidate Alex Reuneker’s research: What do we mean when we use ‘if’?
‘If it rains later, then I’ll take the car.’ In order to reason, we use sentences containing ‘if’ every single day. But how does that work exactly in the Dutch language? Alex Reuneker wrote his 628 page dissertation on the subject. Ceremony on 26 January.
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Claartje LeveltFaculty of Humanities
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Disentangling ghost segments and number marking in Sengwer nouns
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Xiaochen ZhengFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en HenegouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Between deference and destitution: Requesting relief in Scottish pauper letters, 1750-1910
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Pragmaticalization or grammaticalization? A multidimensional model of the evolution of pragmatic markers
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Colonial government by correspondence: the British government's communicative practice in colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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Joanne StolkFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden students help with primary school language lessons
De Regenboog primary school in The Hague has a high percentage of children whose first language is not Dutch. In the ‘Children of the City’ project, Education and Child Studies students help primary school children practise their Dutch.
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School pupils introduced to languages during profile choice afternoon
Last Tuesday, the Herta Mohr building was filled with secondary school pupils. During the profile choice afternoon, they were introduced to various aspects of language studies. 'It’s really exciting to be here.'
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Carmen Parafita Couto speaks about bilingualism.
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Esther de VrindICLON
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Word by word, the first modern Japanese-Dutch dictionary is nearing completion
It was more than twenty years ago that the plan for a Japanese-Dutch dictionary was born. Now it contains over 65,000 words, and completion is tentatively coming into view. Dictionary makers Oscar Veltink and Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren talk about their enthusiasm for this decades-long mammoth task.
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (XS) grant will enable her to test this hypothesis among the Ethiopian Hamar people. ‘The idea that everyone thinks in geometric shapes is culturally de…